Interviews
Touching the Ground
The sea and its horizons bring both respite and reminders of violence. For poets Imani Elizabeth Jackson, M. NourbeSe Philip and S*an D. Henry-Smith, the sea is an end, and also a beginning
Touching the Ground
The sea and its horizons bring both respite and reminders of violence. For poets Imani Elizabeth Jackson, M. NourbeSe Philip and S*an D. Henry-Smith, the sea is an end, and also a beginning
Future Perfect
“We don’t, now, have the 22nd century, an era of great promise, looming ahead of us. You never hear it mentioned; you scarcely ever see it in print.”
Althea Thauberger
In her Art Gallery of Nova Scotia exhibition, the Vancouver artist calls into question constructed identities and the nation state.
Dialogue: Douglas Cardinal and Tiffany Shaw-Collinge
Cardinal, who represented Canada at the 2018 Venice Biennale in Architecture, discusses the role of women in shaping anticolonial space with Shaw-Collinge, the intern architect at the vanguard of women-led Indigenous architecture in Canada
A Future That Has No History
Laure Prouvost and Jonas Staal talk about how they oversee, as artists and co-administrators, a universe of nipples, tentacles, plants, signs and other non-humans in their projects
Marion Lessard
Cinematic conceits and narrative superstructures are thrown into constructive confusion in a new film installation by the Montreal artist and collective.
Mary Kavanagh
What do the timescales of nuclear radiation tell us about the militarization of land, and people?
Myth and Matter
Sky Hopinka speaks about moving on the land, Indigenous presence and relations that collapse time and space
Megan Rooney
Following a major solo presentation at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf last year, the London, UK–based Canadian artist brings her murals and performances to Toronto. Her exhibition "HUSH SKY MURMUR HOLE" opens February 6 at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Karine Fréchette
New and recent paintings by the Montreal artist translate the speed of everyday life into a suite of pulsing, rhythmic abstractions.
From the Archive
Veronika Pausova Paints a Spidery Sublime
This artist spins webs of imagery by turns cartoonish and trompe l’oeil, ab ex and VFX, rife with loopy insects, nail-bitten fingers and other surreal turns
I Need to Know Where I’m Standing
Following her Sobey win, a conversation with Kapwani Kiwanga on audiences, critique strategies and when critics get it wrong
Moyra Davey Discusses Her Mother Reader, 15 Years On
Acclaimed Canadian artist Moyra Davey published her perennially relevant Mother Reader in 2001. Now, she reveals how motherhood continues to affect her art.